Thursday, October 7, 1965

School Boards M^ist Find Answer

Caught Red-Handed!

The meeting schedjilcd bebveen the Pitt County and Greenville Boards of Education next week ahou be the first official step toward finding a solution to b the thofny problem of district lines which has become a distinct handicap to public education in this county.

For several years now the problems of district lines has been discussed in *Pitt County, but until now the boards of education of the respective school administrative units have not met face-to-face to

" begin the quest for a solution.---^

Their joint meeting scheduled for next week comes many years too late: but there may be some satisfaction in the fact that they at last have decided to officially consider the problem jointly. ^

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Coltrane Sees

The Immediate matter which is bringing the two school boards together is the dividing^line between the Greenville and Winterville school districts. More than 100 people who reside in the Greenville corporate limits, but within the Winterville school district, appeared before the Pitt Board of Education this week requesting the board approve their petition for an election to determine whether they should be part of the WinterviUe or Greenville school districts. Thirli^ Board of ^ducalTOnbaTrmcrbaTcteit

Need To Grow

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

UaCIAL The chairman of the states newly . enlarged Good Ne^hbor Council Is pleased and encouraged by recent Indications of progress In the field of race relations and harmony In North Carolina.

At the safe time, veteran state official D. S. (Dave) Coltrane concedes there are sUlI some rough places and sore spcAs. There is, he says, more that needs to be done and plenty of room for fur-th- Improvement in the overall rmdal climate.

But Coltrane disagrees aith tw statement of Floyd Mc-Klssick oi Durham, state chairman of the Congress of Raotai Equality (CX)RE), that North CaroUna has retro-greooed under the present ad-mlftlstntlon.

McKissidc says there has**-been no affirmative thrust, no atrong leadership" by the. Moore administration and that this has left a void which "is being filled by the Klu Klux Klan."

"Many basic problems havent been touched," Me-Khsslck says.

NEEDS Coltrane, a man of persistence, patience and who has never been known to make a snap decision, says "I am aure that much more can and will be done as we go along."

Ite cites specifically the matter of training and edu-caUon of Negroes for moro and better job opportunities. Thia, be says, is a primary need "many job opportunities have been opened to Negroe.s It la, he aaid. a matter of being prepared and quallilcd to do the Job available. ^

Coltrane inslata, howev e r. that *weve made remarkable progn^" in a number of areas. pointed to the .smooth, trouble, ftee opwiing of pub-Uc sehoola tWa Fall "wNth much more than token integration."

In afkUtion, ht eald, North CaroUna worked out its public acoommodationa problems to such an extent that there was no disturbance and few complaints of dlaerlmlnation when tttle seven of the ClvU Rights Act went into effect.

The same was true, he says,

. of employment practices in a

' number erf major Industries,

NSXIROES The piesldent of the NAACP in North Carolina, Kelly Aleximder of Charlotte. said he also feels that some mbstantial pmgmes is being made but that much

more needs to be done.

Alexander said he felt the Good Neighbor Councils set up on both* state and local levels are helping but that still better lines of communication * are needed.

The NAACP leader cited problems in Job opportunities, slum housing and in addlti(mal integration of schools. He said ' the so caUed "freedom of choice" school plans .adopted by most North Carolina local-^ itles this year "do not carry * out the Intent of the Supreme Court

McKlsslck, meanwhile, said there are numerous other areas for improvement, "The court system in this state is .still lily white," he said. "You never see any Negroes In the county courthouses." He add- f ed that Negroes should be on the State Highway Patrol.

In state employment, he said, most of the 6,412 Negroes on the states payroll do janitorial w^ork while some :i4,400 white nploycs hold better joba.

PROJECT^ The State Highway Commission has clarified another misunderstanding about how it wants to settle the long - standing controversy about a relocation of U.S. 220 in the Rockingham area.

It wants to determine the fact and reach a final deci-i sion in private conferences. "We dont plan any more public hearings," says chalrmwi Joseph M. Hunt Jr. Antrther one would just muddy tl water.

There were reports last week that a final decision on the much -delayed project was forthcoming from the Highway Commission and Gov. Dan Moore. But it was held up again and Hunt said no decision would be announced until about Oct. 10.

Hunt told newsmem that although he has no plans for another public hearing on the disputed route of the new highway, he would go to Rockingham himself "if necessary" to be suie about making the rtght decision.

The governor told reporters at a new's conference last week that no decision would be made until after a "public hearing" by the Highway Commission on Oct. 8.

EFFECT Most state labor officials fCMesee no Immediate, widespread effect nor drastic change in union-man-agement relations in North ^Carolina In the event Congress repeals Section 14B of the Taft Hartley labor law.

Repeal (rf 14B would revoke authority <rf states to enact and enforce ao-called "right-to-work" laws which prohibit the union sh<jp. North Carolina is one of 19 states with such a law.

The long range effect." according to labor department officials, would be to open the way for labor and management to close contracts with P*-vislons requiring union membership as a condition of em-(CoDtlnued On Page 6)

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on the petition'which was presented several months ago.

From the long range standpoint, however, the problem which confronts public education in Pitt County goes much deeper than just the shifting of the boundary line between the Greenville and Winterville school districts.

The public education system of the county is .still hobbled by the antiquated Cleveland County Act which set up seperate bond districts for schools throughout Pitt. Sooner or later Pitt County must throw off this old legislation which impedes the orderly building of a modern system of public schools on a county-wide basis. The sooner, the better.

There is also the question of possible merger of the Pitt County and Greenville school administrative units which could further streamline the system of public education throughout the county and pay citizens huge dividends in more efficient operation?* and a better school system in the years to come.

It, is the responsibility ofi the boards of education of the city and county administrative units to initiate action which will lead^o workable soluiions to the problems that face our mublic schools.

The problems which face The two administrative units cannot be iseparated. whe action of each has a direct bearing on the othei^ and if the calibre of education in the county as a whole is to be improved-which indeed it mustthe action of the ^ two administrative units must be closely coordinated. ART oUCHWAlI/

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Chaos

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

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'^ouch Of Irony A Close Call For D.C. !'n LBJs Offer

By JOHN CHADWICK

WASHINGTON (AP) -There was a tiHKjh of irony in President Johnsons offering asylum to additional thousands of Chiban refugees Sunday when he signed a new immigration bill into law.

Thl* is because the only pro-vision in the bill that was designed to benefit Cuban Refugees in this country was eliminated before its final approval by Congress.

Secondly, both the Senate and the House committee reports on the legislation called for a halt to the use of the authority under which most of the 270,000 Cuban refugees have been ad* mltted to the United States since Castro came to power.

The new law, which goes into effect Dec. 1, has two key features. One is the elimination over the next three years of the national origins quota system. The other is the placing of a celling on immigration from Western Hemisphere nation* for the first time, beginning July 1, 1968.

These have captured most of the attention, obscuring some of the other controversies involved tn altering the Mccar-ran-Walter Act, the nations basic 1 m m i g r a t i on - na-turalteatlon law since 1952.

As first passed by the Senate, the bill would have permitted Cuban refugee* to apply for adjusUnent of their status from refugees to aliens admitted to permanent residence in order to become eligible after five years to seek U. S. citiaenship.

The House had no similar provision in its bill, and in the compromise woriced out by a Senate-House CTonference C^-mittee thi.s Senate amendment was jettisoned.

The effect was to wipe out the only provision of direct benefit to the Cubana, although the leglslatio-. does call for a study of their situation by a special 15-member cwimisslon on Western Hemisphere immigration.

Some Congress members expect the commission to recommend special legislation to make the Cuban refugees eligible for adjustment of their status, as was done in the case of Hungarian refugees paroled Into this country in 1956 after an antl-Communist uprising was crushed by the Soviet Union.

Cubans who have been paroled into this country as refugee* now have to go to some ether country, usually Canada or Mexico, and get an immigration visa If they wish to adjust their present temporary statu* and becwne permanent resident aliens.

Many of them have done just that, particularly those in the professions who, under the laws of some states, must be naturaliaed or have permanent residence status in order to obtain a llciTise to practice.

As finally passed, the legislation bars all Western Hemi

sphere alien* who enter this country a* nonimmigrants, such as visitors, students or refugees,' from applying for permanent resident status after they get here. . ^

The Cuban refugees, like the Hungarian refugees, have been admitted to this country under authority which the McrfJarran-Waltr Act vstd in th attor-Walter Act vested in the attorney general to parole idiens into the United States. This pro-visiim was not changed by the new leglslatiwi.

But the Senate and House committe-s that handled the new immigration bill said this parole authority was intended for use only in individual, emergency cases for example, an alien requiring immediate medical attention.

Their reports, wdch are not legally binding, said it should not be uaed "for the immigration of classes or groups outside the limit of the law."

This Date-

The citizens of Washington, D. C. had a close scare last week. They almost got the right to have self-government. But thanks to Congress the isMie has been postponed and we can rest easy fof another year, if not longer.

T'' idea of people having a say about who rules them is an alien one. and certainly against everything the United States stands for. Owxinents of home rule had some telling argimients on their side.

Not only would it be dangerous f<r the 811,000 citizens to have a voice in their own af-fair, but self-government would lead to corruption, higher taxes, higher taxi fares and traffic tickets for Con^res^ men.

During the hearings it was stated that Washingtonians, who are mor or less charged with running the United States govenunent and many parts of the world, had neither the intelligence nor the ability to govpm themselves. The only ones who knew what was

best for Washington was the House District Committee which, since it had no ax to grind, could look at the nations capital with an objective eye.

Out of the delMite came some very interesting Tacts. One was that as soon as you have self - government you have politicians, and as soon as you have politicians, you have corrupt government.

Since Washlngtwi doesnt have self-government it is not plagued with all the dangers that other American cities face. There is now a group of people here who feel that since Congress does such a good job of running the district, it should take over running all cities with populations of 500,-OCD, or more.

You would have a House Boston Committee, run by a Congressman from South Carolina, a House Los Angeles Committee run by a Ciongress-man from Forida wid a House Chicago Cwnmittec run by a Congressman from East Tex

as.

The people living in these cities would still be able to vote in state and Federal elections, but city elections would be abolished. All questions erf shooting, transportation. hospitalizatKm and police matters would be decided by Congreasicnal committee. You may have some squawks from the cities, but once they realize that these Congressmen are more aware of their problems than they are, they will be grateful.

ART

BUCHWALD

40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN gT DUNCAN October 7. 1925 Wa.shingtoa Senators Win ^ Initial Game From The Pittsburgh Pirates Wash. A.L. 010 020 001 482 Pitt*. N.L. -000 010 000 150

Other Editors Saying

Student Responsibility

Fall Fashion And Window Exhibit A Great Success Great event attended by hundreds of people from every section of cminty; displays beautiful and attractive.

Declared Power Regard As Big Need East CaroUna

Mr. P. M. Wooten addresses aldermen showing greater and cheaper power has become positive necessity to agricultural and commercial exlst-tencc.

Cotton Mill Here Operating Under New Management

Successful Roxboro Cotton Mill men take over plant and will place It on a paying basis.

Dr. Charles Smith Speaka To Students At Teaehera College

Speaks on three essentials that go into the making (rf a good teacher.

These three essentials, according to Dr. Smith, are first, the spirit of adventure or courage; second, the spirit of sacrifice; third, the spirit of foolishness.

(The Durham Herald)

Ordinarily there would be little justldicatlon for the off-campus attention given student handling of the honor code violation charged to the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

But this affair has become basically a question of student responsibility. And student responsibility is very much an off-campus conceni now.

The belief in student responsibilitywhich this new;^per sharesis an important part of the case against North Carolinas invidiorus speaker ban law. With due allowance foijfthe healthy tendency to experiment during college years, the student record at state-supported colleges and universities in North Carolina backs up that belief.

Unfortunately, the current affair at Chapel HUl is still at odds with the record. Student leaders Insisted that final disposition of the student body presidents case be left entirely in student hands, which is a good place for it. But the eagerness to claim jurisdiction as a student right hasnt been matched by an equal eagerness to use that jurisdlctloh.

The issue before the students now is a simple one. It requii-es

no moralizing on the qpecic act attributed to the student body president and his coed date last summer. By any standard, the campus honor code was violated. The girl was given a stiff penalty. The president of the student body was let off with' something equivalent to a slap on the wrist with a kleencx.

If the student body lets the matter end this way, it cannot demean .itself. It cannot help but raise question* about its responsibility. For it will have honored a person who cavalierly disregarded the fundamental code all students are supposed to uphold. It will have tolerated a double standard in punishment.

Administration officials have stressed these implications. For their part, they will not honor the student body president (and thus the student body) by giving him a Place in adminJstration-nm ceremonies this fall. And if the student body cant or wont produce a more responsible result on its own, this gesture will be repeated in many different ways by many others whose interest is not in encouraging the inherent responsibility of students but in provirtg such responsibility is lacking.

By takkig the burden of self-government off the citle* back* you eliminate the pro-bim of corruption and the people dwit have to waste their time voting on issues that only lead to political fights.

I wish I could say that Congre** took care of home rule once and for all, but euch ia not the case. They passed a substitute bill asking the citizen* of Washington to draw up a charter. After tiie charter 1 drawn up and voted on by. the people, Congree* would then have the right to throw it out, if it didnt Uke it.

While chances of the city getting a voice in its affairs is vary elim under this bill, there is always the danger that the House could panic, and pass it. If it did it would be a great blow to the democratic processes of this nation and would put a terrible responsibility on the citizens of the community.

Having had Congressmen tell them what is good and bad for them for so long has left its mark on most Washington residents, and its doubtful they would be up to choosing a city government wisely and without emotion.

Quotes

"The best advice to a dieter: No thyself." Somerset (Mass.) Spectator.

*"The modem three rs aie ring on the phone, ring on the finger and ring in the nose." Atchison (Kan.) Globe.

about 4lKh eoRB)uter. When ev. eryone has access to its calculating wizardry, wont its ad-who hast. m*4A fame and for-vantage* cancel out?

There, i* a clever man in England named Tony Fisher tune for himself In the chicken business. Originally he went into thia buslneaM because it was one of the least regulated area* left open to an English enterpriser, The government has, of course, long since caught up with him by establishing "controls" such as egg marketing boards and the like. But young Mr. Fisher has found defensive means of becoming efficient enought to absorb the inefflciendie* that are imposed on the chicken business by a motiier-bea government.

JOHN CHAMBERLAD4

Here is where the computer comes in. As Mr. F^her explains things, it used to take weeks for his bookkeeper to work out all the complictied equations necessary to determine a chicken feed ration that combined optimum nutrition values with the cheapeat overall purchase price. The astound-ingly complicated table of variables had to reckon with a chickene limite of tolerance for specific grains, the effects of different feed components on egg color and quality, the regional tastes of egg consumers, the state of the futures" market in grains, the relevant information about weather, and other items almost too numerous to mention.

Well. Mr. Fisher got himself a computer, ahd now he can find out the most profitable feed ratlott combination in fifteen minutes whirring of the machines Innards. He has extended his use of the computer to the field of genetics. Every egg that is destinted to be hatched Into a new chicken is tracked and tabulated with reference to the blood lines that produced It. In time the computers "memory will know more about the genetic pools that create the most maricet-able eggs and the fattest chicken* than could be found in a month of Sundays by an ordinary mathematician.

Mr. Fisher is doing well for himself with his computer; he may live in a socialistic country, but be still makes enough in profit* to disport hirazelf and enjoy travel like any decent cairftallst f old. The rewards of ingenuity still flow hi* way. It occurs to me, however, that the "fair shares" mentality of the British Labor government must soon get around to making computers available on an equal basis to everybody in the chicken business. When that democratic day comes, wont Mr. Fishers oom*~ petitive edge be hopcltwly lost?

Given the same tsnpe of "programming" (and there can be no mystery about supplying this), the computer must in the nature of things gdve the same answer on feed rations and blood lines to every cMck-en farmer in England.

To my perhaps naive way of thinking, this sort of "perfect foresight" must produce chaos, if every chicken farmer 3s in to buy the same feed 1....on components at the same moment in time, w<mt It result in a run on the market for the most advanti^eous grains? The law of supply and demand must instantaneously change all the separate grain prices fed into the computers and the value of the computers information must thereby be destroyed. The destruction would be visited equally on everybody concerned.

Maybe I am reaching for (Continued on Page 6)

Waste Built Into U.S. Economy

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"One fellow, a keen observer, wed say, figures that the best boy scouts are girls." Bartow (Ga.) Herald.

Strength For Today

By EARL L- DOUGLASS

FACE FACTS AS THEY ARISE

Some time ago I bad the leasure and privilege of rld-g with a railroad official in his private car. He called my attention to the fact that hi* car did not ride as easily as an ordinary Pullman because the company sees to it when these cars are built that all th* gadgets which make chair cars and sleepsrs rid easily are left out. This they do in order that as the officials ride o'Cr the road they will know exactly the condition of the roadbed. If a aeiftion of the track is rough, the company wants the officials to know this and not be luUed into a false sense of security by soft springs and other attachments which

will make the ride easy and luxurious.

In other words, this company believes In encouraging its employees to face reality. If the roadbed is bad, that is their responsibility, and they should know about it long before the passengers do. I was greatly impressed by the kind of men I rode with on that car. They were the understanding variety of American who is eager to face the problems of Ufe and solve them. To them the idea of a railroad official riding over a poor piece (rf track and having the bad news keirf from him by soft springs was unthinkable.

Sentimentality may please some variety of folk, Ixit the red-bloodC(F like realism.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The government iteeli has built a terrific amount of waste into the American economy. The number of unnecessary and duplicating forms to be filled out is staggering; the amount wasted cm wide margins on U.S. forms e(ju*l* eU the paper needs of the Republic of Upper Volta, a statistic I invented on the spur of the moment. Uquor bottles, by, law, may not be reused, fattening profits of bottle 8 makers and providing jobs for Wfojkers. And there are many other examples of waste enforced by the laws of the land.

Now the U. S. government, in "International Commerce," a magazine pubUshed by the Department of Commerct , tells how the brothers Maslow are making a fortune in a government - decreed waste.

In 1937, Congress passed a law compelling whisky distillers to age their products only In new white oak barrels. Reuse of the baireLs for whteky is forbidden. '

ROLL OUT THE BARREL!

"By 1941 the country is bulging with, used oak barrel." International Commerce

report*. "Two million empties a year became a glut on the market. Distilleries be g a n paying 25 cents a barrel to have them carted away."

After World War II, Louis Maslow, president o. Universal Container Co., of Valley Stream, N.Y., and hi* brother Harold began investigating overseas markets for used oak barrels.

ROSBBNER

They found that Britain does not require distillers of scotch to use new barrels. Distillers had been using Spanish sherry butt* but the pri(^ became prohibitive. Now the thrifty Scot* are the number one customers for used oak barrels sold them by thrifty brtrfhers Masloz, The price has g(me up to $8 to $12 for empty barrels and 800,000 worth a year are shipped to ScoUtfld.

OTHER MARKETS FOUND

The Madows discovered that Africmns imported rough white oak for various uses until the price got too high; now the Maalows sell African* used whisky barrels.

Nickel smelters in Sudbury, Canada, buy 150J)00 barrels a year to package pellets of nickel. Orange growers in Israel buy used whisky barrels in which to ship orange Juloe. The whisky flavor does nothing to slow the salee <rf the juice. And new uses are being found frequently for the used barrels.

It used to be said that a Chinese family could exist on what American familiet throw away; now many foreign industries appear to subsist on what American businesses by Act of Congress are forced to discard. Ai)d the next time you take a drink of scotch, pet if you can taste the aged boiiH)on once aged in the same cask.

oped a clever way to eliminate It. SimplY mount ban of wax Impregnated with 3. 4-D on tractor booms set Just high enough to clear the loybtuis, and drive It through the fields. The chemical kills the taller sebanla Imt doesnt touch the soybean plants.

USDA FINDS NEAT WAY or KILLING OFF A WEED The sebela weed plagues growers of soybeans. But a U. S. Department of )Agriculture plant peychologlsl has devtl-

WORLDS FAIR TURNS SQUARE The New York Stata attorney generals office has announced that the Belgian Village at the Worlds Fair has agreed to stop selling cu'bo-nated grape juice at 60 cents a glass and calling it diam-pagne.

NEW "STATISTICAL ABSTRACT" PUBLISHED GOVERNMENT The economists delight, the 1965 edlUoQ of the "Statistical Abstract (4 the United States has heap pqhtihed by tlf Departipent of Commerce. Th contain* all the IgiiwitAut government businea* atatistioa for the current and previous years. Data from thia book often make this columnist seem to be a wise old man. Coplea are $3.75 from the Superintendent of Documents, Washing ten, D.C 20403,